Battlefield 4 Campaign Sucks

I’ve been playing Battlefield 4 single player campaign. Partly because some reviewers say it’s really good but also to unlock three good guns to use in the main multi-player part of the game. What’s it like? It’s all gone a bit COD.

From the start it seems muddled. Heavy electronic music followed by Bonnie Tyler in the opening titles. Your first action after watching some men talking is to click the mouse or not. I chose not and I have no idea if it made any difference to anything. Next you are in some rooms and it’s all gone Call of Duty. Press E to open a door. Crouch behind some waist high walls and shoot some men who only come in small groups.

I have to say the ‘next gen’ graphics don’t look that special in most of the first section or the rest of the game either. It’s odd in that the Frostbite engine of the game clearly has much power and yet it’s not used much in some parts. Doom 3 had better looking corridors and that’s relatively ancient tech. Later in the campaign there are some more stunning views as you can see in the screenshot above but, for me, there were not many times to look around in wonder.

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Then there is the ‘action’. Some of which is just walking around, jumping over small objects, climbing ladders, walking down corridors and opening endless doors. And standing around listening to some characters I really don’t care about talk about stuff I don’t care about. Boring. There is one of the boring corridors in the shot above. Then there is the driving of boats and cars which is sometimes livened up by being shot at or a bit of shooting but that’s, again, mostly dull.

This is a gun game though and there are shooting parts but much of that is confused and some of the guns are great and some are duds but I did enjoy some of that. Sometimes a simple shooting gallery can be fun. The developers are clearly aping the CoD series. I think they really wanted a ‘Call of Duty’ campaign and they pretty much succeeded. It did feel very CoD. But. I’m pretty tired of that formula and I never wanted Battlefield to copy that. However there is no doubt that the CoD series is the video game sales monster so being more like that will have boosted sales of Battlefield 4 hugely. So it’s OK. It serves it’s purpose.

So it sucks. I mean it’s OK and it does what the publishers wanted it to do but you could do so much more. The Battelfield Bad Company 2 campaign two games back in the Battlefield series was much more enjoyable for me. I liked the characters and the more open, sandbox nature which let you play it how you want. Yet it wasn’t nearly so well received by the reviewers and the buying public compared to CoD. Then again the Call of Duty series was so much more original and fresh back then.

Would I buy BF4 just for the campaign? Probably not. Maybe if it was £5 or less.

26 thoughts on “Battlefield 4 Campaign Sucks”

It’s kind of insulting to CoD:MW to compare this trash campaign with any of them. They actually have cogent stories, character development, and something of a climax. This game has none. For people who are connoisseurs of story, it’s obvious that you are not.

Don’t get me wrong. I love a good story. I enjoyed CoD4:MW and it’s story, despite it’s many flaws. That was one of the first games where I really felt like I was inside an action film/movie. BF4 campaign does have a story to tell as well. But. They have not moved forward to better things since then and they really could have.

All of this is just my opinion and also a little bit ‘tongue in cheek’, so please don’t take it personally! 🙂

Story : GTA IV>GTA V>FC3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BF4 all day
Everything Else : GTA V>FC3>GTA IV>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BF4 every single fucking day until i died

I was extremely disappointed with the campaign. It made no sense with almost 0 political insight onto what the heck is happening. All I know is this Chinese guy named Chan or something tries to assassinate the most successful presidential candidate, blah blah blah, something about the Russians supporting Chan or something. It is hugely unrealistic for multiple reasons. The United states government would never let a couple of special forces guys carry out this kind of maneuver, and war hasn’t even been formally declared on China yet, and some how, the government sees it fit to intervene with Chinese and Russian interests. Just because in the last game relations with Russia were icy it doesn’t mean we need to engage in this kind ridiculous behavior. Honestly I have no idea what happened in Baku but i am pretty sure shooting Russian soldiers–WAR. I heard them talk about that if Chan took over it would be war, if you have your carriers in the South China Sea, operating covert sabotage strikes against China and Russia, IT IS WAR. Also on the subject of China, the president has 0 political power within the Chinese government, the “president” of China is a puppet figure made to fool western nations like the: USA, UK, IR, KS, RF, KN, and other NATO nations into thinking that VERY communist country’s like China are democracy’s. So if Jin Jie were assassinated or not it wouldn’t matter because the leader of the PC (peoples congress) is in fact the communist party leader. So on that people like Chan should want Jin Jie to be president because its not like he has the power to change anything because if the “president” can’t change anything and is a puppet figure then it does realm matter. In my opinion the BF4 campaign was purely lazily written and poorly thought out. They focused far to much on multiplayer mechanics than anything else.